Pilot training and fatigue are expected to be the focus of a public hearing into safety issues following the February 12 plane crash near Buffalo, New York, that killed 50 people.

The Buffalo airliner crash that killed 50 people may have been the pilot’s fault, investigators said today.

US investigators have located key parts that might help reveal the pilot’s efforts to save a plane that crashed into a house, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.

A commuter plane that smashed into a house apparently plunged flat to the ground rather than nose-diving, ending up pointed away from the airport it was trying to reach, US investigators said.